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The Discharge

Prompt: Begin or end with the sentence: 

"He stepped into the morning light." 

(No time limit)

     His wife was with him in the hospital. His sons and daughters visited him from time to time with their kids. He could not speak nor move from his bed anymore. A urinary catheter hung next to him. The term, "pancreatic cancer" must have been something he barely heard of before. Despite his wife's zealous prayers, which saved him from the casualties of the Vietnam War according to his wife's belief, he knew his time has come.

     Recovering his Korean name from the Japanese, the Korean War that took his father's life away, the face of my grand mother in her youth, the ups and downs of his mining industry, allowing my father to study abroad in the United States, or perhaps even me at the age of 9, who refused to kiss him on his cheek, despite of my father's coaxing in the hospital; God knows what flashed before my grand father when he drew his last breath that night?

He stepped out into the morning light.